The most damaging policies were those at the heart of the recovery plan, including The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which tossed aside the nation's antitrust acts and permitted industries to collusively raise prices provided that they shared their newfound monopoly rents with workers by substantially raising wages well above underlying productivity growth.

Tiger Food Brands, Premier Foods and Pioneer Foods had "collusively fixed" the price of bread and the discount rate to distributors, and had "divided the market by agreeing not to poach" each others distributors.

It was a case of mere dummies, [664] and incredible incompetence on the part of the accusers -- that is to say, of L. L.ntulus, son of L.cius, who, according to the universal murmur, acted collusively.